[FlorenceArt]

Hi All! It's been a while since I posted here. After a while re-reading some of my old p-books (I had an anxiety attack when I was jobless and started re-reading my whole fantasy-romance collection, lol), I am back to e-books and reading two of them at the moment:

Nouveaux souvenirs entomologiques by Jean-Henri Fabre (new entomological memoirs? Something like that), the second volume of his memoirs, which I find fascinating. I've always been interested in insects because they are the easiest wildlife to observe, but I don't have the patience to spend years just watching them and I'm happy he did that so that I get to read about it instead. He was a very thorough observer and experimenter, and I like his lively style too. He was completely wrong about evolution, but it's also interesting to read about his opinions on that, which probably were shared by many of his contemporaries.

The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem is weird, because it's the story of a boy who was born almost at the same time I was, but his childhood is so different from mine we could be from different planets. Otherwise it's well written, a good book for sure, but somehow there is something missing I can't quite put my finger on. Good, but not great.